How to Play Smooth Jazz BAGPIPES!!

Any instrument can play any style of music - don't let anyone tell you otherwise! In this video I show you exactly how to play smooth jazz bagpipes. Enjoy!
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[@DavePollack]

I hope you enjoyed this one! What other instruments should I make a smooth jazz video about? Let me know!

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

Based on the way this video ended, viola

[@AceecA626]

Mayonnaise

[@AceecA626]

How about turning classical music into jazz ...?

[@saxophonerman1239]

Violin or French horn or bassoon.

[@DynamixWarePro]

It would be interesting to hear what smooth jazz on a crumhorn sounds like.

[@gil-evens]

Now there's a 54yo Scottish dude wearing a kilt up in some mountains shredding Giant Steps in the wildest time signatures...

[@mahumucamisa7145]

In all twelve keys😂😂😂

[@gil-evens]

Mahu Mucamisa dude I was about to write that but I chilled out 😂

[@sequoyahcisneros8719]

Wynton Marsalis when he realises Sitars (and other Asian instruments) weren't originally used in jazz, but plays with them anyways: I'm going to pretend I didn't see that

[@Jwellsuhhuh]

"big shoutout to Matt Willis for sending me these bagpipes" *burns it*

[@DavePollack]

😈

[@kwakerjak]

In all seriousness, though, Rufus Harley definitively proved that the bagpipes are AMAZING for playing jazz-funk.

[@zangsax]

My favorite trio is accordion, banjo, and bagpipes. You have proven bagpipes are even extremely jazzy on there own.

[@kyukyu8195]

Smooth AF

[@bladdemirpoohtan____3097]

When does the album drop?

[@DavePollack]

January 26

[@bladdemirpoohtan____3097]

Dave Pollack Can I contribute to your kickstarter campaign and preorder a copy?

[@kevdragmas]

No instruments were harmed in the making of thi-- ...........

[@calebr6840]

Was that wynton marsalis lol

[@DavePollack]

TRADITION

[@AndrewHadro]

Man standing over bagpipe fire playing smooth soprano. Today I learned I have a new fetish. Thanks Dave!

[@DavePollack]

Hahahahaaaaa you’re welcome! Glad I could help

[@camthesaxman3387]

You guys cringed hard when Dave threw his tenor in the first How to Play Smooth Jazz video, but here he is burning a set of bagpipes. This destruction of instruments is not okay!

[@blackitachi6935]

I'm pretty sure that tree is pregnant now

[@Eppert85]

smooth jazz on tuba!!

[@donl9571]

0:27 is just the kind of BS excuse kids always dream up. Advantage of the bagpipe is that you can hold a note infinitely long. Take that Kenny G!

[@DavePollack]

Hahah!

[@majoraoftime6484]

So can he lol. Look up Kenny G circular breathing.

[@bigcee6114]

Check out: Rufus Harley Jr. was an American jazz musician known primarily as the first jazz musician to adopt the Great Highland bagpipe as his primary instrument. Born: May 20, 1936, Raleigh, NC Died: July 31, 2006, Philadelphia, PA Genre: Jazz

[@arthurbuccioli]

loved the video, the ending was the cherry on the top of the cake lol

[@ianwhatmough150]

Roaring!

[@officialwilliamarchila]

Request you by How To Play Smooth Jazz Bass Clarinet.

[@serseriherif9530]

I want to hear some bagpipe hardstyle now lol... great work! I'm trying to apply the ney (middle eastern reedflute) to jazz and for modern (modal) jazz it's great but don't try bebop 'cus it's hard to play chromatic stuff

[@hughdavis8344]

You absolute madman.

[@DavePollack]

Thank you!

[@andrew4282]

Plz next smooth jazz on basson

[@alleu9210]

bassoon gang

[@blackitachi6935]

I'd rather not see him destroy a bassoon 😂

[@FURBjr]

Yeah boi!

[@joshuagrant6192]

You Thought You Were Slick With That Wynton Marsalis Picture.😂😂🤣🤣

[@DavePollack]

;)

[@TiagoLageira]

Jazz is dead *and oh so smooth*

[@tylera86]

I think I like "Songbird" on bagpipes better?

[@DavePollack]

Blasphemy

[@DaDarkGuy]

But can you play smooth jazz on a pan-flute?

[@Michael-ol7wm]

Cool video, and you have such a great sense of humor. Besides, you are a great saxophonist. Thank you for sharing your talent and videos.

[@DavePollack]

Thanks so much!!

[@trialbystone2532]

Question, how do you play bagpipes without blowing out the eardrums of anyone around you or especially yourself?

[@boston4715]

you can get a practice chanter to learn to play on

[@JamesMacTavish1688]

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[@Canhan167]

How about some smooth jazz on a sopranino recorder?

[@ne0romantic]

Can you not get vibrato on those pipes using flattement?

[@DavePollack]

Beats me! Hahah

[@ne0romantic]

@@DavePollack a quick google lead me to a forum and someone saying: I've had several pipers tell me not to play vibrato on notes because "you don't do that on Highland Pipes"... which I thought was pretty funny. I would guess it might be traditional on Uilleann pipes, though. It supposedly the "traditional" way to play vibrato on "Irish" flutes, whistle, etc.

[@camthesaxman3387]

Yes, you can get a bit of vibrato on bagpipes by covering some lower holes.

[@Coderedpirate]

Hey Dave, what software do you use to layer your playing on top of the backing track?

[@DavePollack]

Logic Pro

[@DomPalombiMusic]

SO SAVAGE 🤣

[@DavePollack]

Yeahhhhh buddy!!

[@kalinkirilov-gon-bulgaria]

SCALE...?

[@AceecA626]

Bagpipes sounds like Chinese hulusi flute

[@Jwellsuhhuh]

HU LU SI!!!!!! gourd

[@evanharris9532]

Dad is that you????

[@AceecA626]

No matter instrument you play ... You too can make great music .... . R.i.p bagpipes

[@DavePollack]

Thank you!

[@icyhotonmynuts]

I like your message, but delivery was off putting. Consider mentioning Gunhild Carling as she did an excellent rendition of jazz using bagpipes

[@DavePollack]

Hahahaaaaaa

[@sobhibatrees6877]

Can some one send me hellbound train? Pleas

[@Supremedalex]

The best soprano player is Sidney Bechet- prove me wrong

[@DavePollack]

Hahahah

[@richardporter1787]

I was going to subscribe until you torched the bagpipe. The shame.

[@MattWillisBagpiper]

They were crap bagpipes. I sent them to him and watching them burn made this professional bagpiper happy.

[@richardporter1787]

@@MattWillisBagpiper That's a relief, then, Matt. I've had nightmares. All is well now. Subscribed to Dave.

[@camthesaxman3387]

Were they cheap Pakistani pipes? Also, that can't be him actually playing Songbird on the bagpipes. That has to be a dub.